Ukrainian drone – Ukraine’s reported long-distance drone strike on Russia has killed at least four people, including three near Moscow, and injured more than a dozen others, as debris reportedly fell on Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport without affecting flights. Ukrainian Presiden
One of Ukraine’s largest drone strikes on Russia has left at least four people dead, including three near Moscow, while a separate report says drone debris landed on Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport without damaging it or disrupting flights.
Local authorities said the strikes killed three people near Moscow and wounded a dozen others.. In the Moscow region. Governor Andrei Vorobyev said a woman died after a drone hit her home in Khimki. a city just northwest of the capital.. He also said two men died in the village of Pogorelki, about 10 kilometres north of Moscow.
Vorobyev added that Ukrainian drones damaged unspecified “infrastructure” and several high-rise buildings. He also reported that one man was killed after a drone struck a truck in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine.
In Moscow itself, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that at least 12 people were wounded in the night-time strike, mostly near the entrance to the city’s oil refinery. Sobyanin said the “technology” of the refinery had not been damaged.
The impact of the attack was not limited to the Moscow region. Sheremetyevo, described as Russia’s largest airport, said drone debris fell on its grounds without causing damage or affecting flights.
Russian officials said their air defences intercepted the bulk of the attack.. State agency Tass. citing Sobyanin. reported that Russian defences shot down 81 drones headed for Moscow overnight. calling it one of the largest attacks on the city since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24. 2022.. The defence ministry later said Russian air defences destroyed 556 drones over Russia overnight. and that more than 1000 drones had been shot down or jammed in the previous 24 hours.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the drone strikes on Sunday, saying they were “entirely justified”. He said the drones had flown more than 500 kilometres from Ukrainian territory and that Ukraine was “overcoming” Russian air defence systems concentrated in and around the capital.
“Our responses to Russia’s prolongation of the war and attacks on our cities and communities are entirely justified. This time, Ukrainian long-distance sanctions have reached the Moscow region, and we are clearly telling the Russians: their state must end its war,” Zelenskyy said.
The timing and scale drew comparison to earlier strikes during the war.. Nigel Gould Davies. a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the London-based think tank the International Institute for Strategic Studies. said the large-scale attack appeared to be “the retaliation or revenge that President Zelenskyy promised after the fierce attacks that Russia carried out on Kyiv.”
He said those Kyiv strikes came immediately after a brief ceasefire that had allowed Russia to hold its annual Victory Day parade on May 9, commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
Gould Davies told The Associated Press that the latest attack “brings home the fact Ukraine has the capacity to strike at very significant scale at or around the Russian capital. ” adding it was a way that would be “most unwelcome” to the Kremlin.. He also said there is “no ongoing peace process to disrupt”. and that the attack was more likely to add to anxiety in Russia that has grown over the past three or four months.
He pointed to several factors behind that broader pressure, including Russia’s recent battlefield setbacks, a deteriorating economic situation at home, and the Kremlin’s intensifying crackdown on the internet in Moscow and St Petersburg.
Zelenskyy’s account of drones crossing more than 500 kilometres from Ukrainian territory. alongside claims that more than 1000 drones were shot down or jammed in the previous 24 hours. ties the reported scale of the assault directly to how both sides describe the air-defence fight around the Russian capital. even as local officials reported casualties in Moscow and the surrounding region.
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So they just threw debris at an airport and it was fine? Sounds like propaganda tbh.
81 drones intercepted but somehow 4 people still died near Moscow… math not mathing. Like if they can shoot down all the drones then how did it hit homes and a truck?
I read “Sheremetyevo debris” and assumed it crashed into the runway or something, but nope just landed on the grounds? Either way that’s scary as hell. Also “no flights affected” doesn’t mean everyone wasn’t freaking out at the time.
This is why drone stuff is out of control. If it hit high-rises and oil refinery areas then that’s basically an attack on energy, right? And they’re saying 556 drones destroyed too, so is it 81 or 556, because that number confusion is wild.